Eden Ranch developers ask to widen Shiloh Road and build on slopes

October 27, 2025

By Mary Beth Gahan

FLOWER MOUND, Texas — The Planning and Zoning Commission will consider amendments to the town’s master plan for a 335-acre development on the west side of Shiloh Road on Monday night.

Eden Ranch is proposed to have 158 single-family homes and could include an orchard, daycare, and a farm. Tyler Radbourne purchased the property from Charlie Cummings a few years ago and now needs town approval to make his vision a reality.

Radbourne is asking for two changes to the master plan for the development north of Cross Timbers Road.

First, there is a street that runs east to west from Shiloh Road to Red Rock Road and cuts through the middle of Eden Ranch where homes would be built. If approved, that would be removed.

Another amendment would change one part of Shiloh Road from a two-lane, undivided road to a four-lane undivided road. The road would be expanded for 1,600 feet north of Cross Timbers Road.

According to a town planning staff report, traffic on Shiloh Road will likely exceed the threshold for SMARTGrowth — standards the town uses to manage expansion — even if the east-west road is kept in place. If the that road is removed and Shiloh Road is not expanded to four lanes, the amount of traffic would exceed the threshold by 15 vehicles during peak hours and 50 vehicles on a daily basis.

At a town council work session in March, town staff said it was unclear how much the town or developer would pay for the road work.

The land is in the Cross Timbers Conservation Development District, which has additional criteria for land use, including not approving development on land that has a topographical slope of more than 12 percent. The district also does not allow the alteration of a slope that is less than 12 percent and greater than 5 percent.

“The purpose of this criterion is to ensure that development is respectful of and appropriately integrated with the natural physical geography of the land in Flower Mound by requiring environmentally sensitive development techniques to eliminate "scrape and build,” the staff report said.

The developer of Eden Ranch is asking for an exception to this rule. The development would affect 21.1 acres of land that has a slope of less than 12 percent but greater than 5 percent. It would also affect .7 acres of land that have a slope of greater than 12 percent.

In considering that exception, the town will look at how it would affect the floodplain, trees, and other environmental factors. Across FM 1171, residents of the Cross Timbers Conservation Development District have repeatedly approached town council about the impact of development on flooding.

The Planning and Zoning Commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday.